LondonSkaters Speed Team - Speed Skating & Rollerblading Club in London

Natasha · Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 2973 Location: Basingstoke

Is this still on, Naomi?

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4108

Ray · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 806 Location: Dagenham

I have to work this morning - but I hope to be @ HP for 1 and get the benefits of Naomi's instruction.

Rick · Joined: 25 Feb 2004 Posts: 5914

I am resting the finger this weekend so I won't be coming.

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4108

That was great! You lot who didn't come, you should have 'cause you missed out.

fzurro · Joined: 09 Sep 2005 Posts: 796 Location: Middlesex

Ray · Joined: 30 Mar 2004 Posts: 806 Location: Dagenham

Thanks Naomi, this was great - my own incompetence was smugly mocked by the silent insolence of the little yellow cups Embarassed

, but I can see that perseverance and practice will pay dividends and increase the effectiveness of my heel carving on an outside edge - I almost got my left foot to pivot on a couple of occasions and that felt soo good. But when we went for a straight line skate at the end I felt that even my standard classic stride had been improved. Let's do some more Smile

(But I might need a number of remedial classes for the pathetically underachieving)

Naomi · Joined: 01 Jun 2004 Posts: 374 Location: London

Thanks for letting me use your quote - if anyone else is interested in reading and correcting the theory I wrote, its at

www.skatefreestyle.com/slalom_for_speed.html

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4108

Mikey-two-Names · Joined: 24 Feb 2004 Posts: 4108

I think everyone did pretty well considering. Slalom is very hard and it really pushes your limits, that's why all the more experienced slalomers are such good all round skaters.

I was lucky to have been on one of Naomi's courses before, and to have spent a lot of time in my hockey skates. One of these days I might even catch the bug.

Glenn · Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 1109 Location: ST Pauls

Hey Noams,

Great session - sorry I didn't get back to you on the forum earlier but I have had my head down this week.

I've often wondered why Slalom skaters are often such fast skaters - notwithstanding that they don't do much speed training technique - and I think I read some Kiwi speed-skating site reference to Bill Begg getting some of his students to slalom as part of their training.

Any way specifically, I thought the session was great for devloping the carve; d shape recovery; stride fluidity and edge contol - I'll definitely be doing more in the future.

Glenn